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Torah Portion #26 Sh’mini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47)
In this Torah Portion we see the priest given the instruction of how to worship and the consequences for disobeying.
Torah Portion #25 Tzav (Leviticus 6:1-8:36)
We continue to learn about the instructions of the offerings from the book of Leviticus. In this torah portion there is a shift from being general instructions for the people of Israel, to more specific directions for the priests of Israel.
The book I read from in this video was Torah Scope by William Mark Huey.
Torah Portion #24 Vayikra (Leviticus 1:1-5:26)
This is the first Torah Portion in the book of Leviticus and talk about the 5 different types of offerings.
The complete book of Leviticus took place at Mt. Sani.
The Purpose of Leviticus is an instruction for the priests and Levites outlining their duties in worship. How to perform their duties, hot to be educated regarding Yah’s sacrifices, laws, etc. It is a guidebook of holy living for community of Israel.
The word “Leviticus” means, “that which pertains to the Levites.
The theme of the book are the requirments to be set apart to YHWH
The overwhelming message of Leviticus is the holiness of Our Creator,
“you must be holy because I, Yahweh your God is holy -Leviticus 19:2
Holiness in mentioned more times (152) than in any other book of the Bible.
Introduction to Leviticus
The overwhelming message of Leviticus is the holiness of Yahweh – “You must by holy because, I, the Creator, is holy” Leviticus 19:2. But how can unholy people approach a holy God? The answer – first sin must be dealt with.
In Leviticus sacrifices, priests and the sacred Day of Atonement opened the way for the Israelites to come to Yahweh.
Torah Portion #23 P’kudei (Exodus 38:21-40:38)
This Torah Portion is the end of the story of Exodus. Moses laid out the steps, but Ithamar supervised the project. Yahweh didn’t ask Moses to build the Tabernacle but to motivate the experts to do it. Every single detail was followed according to Yah’s plan. The Tabernacle was finally complete to the last detail. Moses was careful to obey all the instructions exactly.
“Then the cloud covered the Tabernacle, and the glory of Our Creator filled the Tabernacle” -Exodus 40:34
Torah Portion #22 Vayak’hel (Exodus 35:1-38:20)
In this Torah Teaching I talk about, the construction of the Tabernacle and the instructions for the Sabbath. Our Creator gave the instructions to all the community.
Then Moses said to the whole community of Israel -Exodus 35:4
Torah Portion #21 Ki Tissa (Exodus 30:11-34:35)
In this Torah Teaching I talk about, money for the Tabernacle, the anointing oil, the incense, craftsmen; Bezalel and Oholiab.
In Chapter 32 I explain one of the most dreadful acts to ever take place, the breaking of the Torah with the golden calf.
The main message of this teaching is there are 3 main consequences for breaking Torah;
1-Plagues
2-Death
3-Being cut off from the community.
Torah Portion # 19 T’rumah (Exodus 25:1-27:19)
In this weeks Torah Parashah, Our Creator tells Moses the instructions for building the Tabernacle. The Court yard, the Tabernacle itself and everything inside it. He is warned to follow the instructions exactly the way he is shown.
They are to make me a sanctuary, so that I may live among them. You are to make it according to everything I show you – the design of the tabernacle and the design of its furnishings. This is how you are to make it.
-Exodus 25:8-9
Torah Portion #18 Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1-24:18)
I’ve always had a hard time understanding or explaining this Torah Portion about slavery, death and other laws giving by Moses after the ten commandments were giving.
After much study and prayer I now understand this portion better.
Much of these rulings were spoken about because they were common issues at that time in Egypt and Our Creator didn’t want these things to be an issue in the promised land.
I’m presented this Torah portion teaching in a different format than I usually do so please let me know what you think.
Torah Portion # 17 Yitro (Exodus 18:1-20:26)
In this Torah Portion the 10 commandments are giving on Mount Sanai to Moses and to the children of Israel.
The Ten Commandments
And The Creator spoke all these words, saying: “I am Yahweh your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- You shall have no other gods before me.
- You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, Yawheh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
- You shall not take the name of the The Creator in vain, for Yawheh will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
- Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Yahweh your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore Yawheh blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
- Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Yahweh the Creator is giving you.
- You shall not murder.
- You shall not commit adultery.
- You shall not steal.
- You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”